Sentence examples for opening of archives from inspiring English sources
The author has been able to tap new sources, including intimate Romanov diaries, thanks in part to the opening of archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union and also to his own family contacts.
Among the measures they have used are truth commissions, purges, the opening of archives and trials.Spain's uniqueness stems from its conscious decision to turn its back on the past.
The government estimates its liability at 4 billion reais ($1.5 billion) and is now thinking of capping the awards.In the absence of a national reckoning, victims are now pressing for the opening of archives shut by Brazil's previous president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who in his final days in office decreed a doubling of the secrecy period for classified documents.
1. Other transitional policies include administrative purges, the opening of archives, reparations and the creation of public monuments.
Thanks to the opening of archives, quite a few Western historians are, it is true, still investigating the history of the Soviet Union and of the international Communist movement.
* Advocating the opening of Armenian Archives: Opening all Armenian archives to independent scholarly review will unearth the complete narrative of Ottoman-Armenian history, including the Armenian independence movement and revolt.
The opening of the archives should allow people to do just that, said Vyatrovych, whose National Memory Institute will now be in charge of the archives.
But it will have to await the full opening of K.G.B. archives for verification".
Documents disclosed by the opening of Soviet archives and though America's freedom of information legislation mean that contemporary history is continually being revised.
And Sir Martin Gilbert expressed the view that Bush and Blair "may well, with the passage of time and the opening of the archives, join the ranks of Roosevelt and Churchill".
Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of state archives in Moscow, scholarship has considerably darkened the view of the Communist role in Republican Spain.
